Читать книгу The Peaks of the Balkans Trail. Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo онлайн

17 страница из 34

National parks and nature reserves

Prokletije National Park, in Montenegro, covers an area of 16,630ha. It is the newest of Montenegro’s five national parks, having been designated as such in 2009 – a strikingly beautiful mountain landscape, the fauna and in particular the flora of which are fantastically rich. Within Prokletije National Park, the area around Hridsko jezero is a nature reserve (Rezervat prirodne Hridsko jezero), as is Volušnica in the Grbaja Valley.

The Peaks of the Balkans Trail passes through two national parks in Albania: Thethi National Park and Valbona Valley National Park. Thethi National Park covers an area of 2630ha in the Thethi Valley, and was declared a national park in 1966. The Valbona Valley National Park covers an area of 8000ha, and was declared a national park in 1996.

The Rugova Valley and surrounding mountains in Kosovo were declared a national park in 2013, covering an area of 20,330ha. There is some opposition to the new park from some locals, who fear it will affect their ability to collect firewood and graze livestock in the area, or to build houses there.